About Quote by Peter R. Grant

Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The…

— Desmond Morris

“For a species low in male parental investment, the basic dynamic of courtship, as we’ve seen, is pretty simple: the male really wants sex;…

— Robert Wright

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

— Laurence Sterne

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force…

— Jacob Bronowski

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

— Peter R. Grant

Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a…

— Havelock Ellis

The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.

— Peter R. Grant

My son is a lecturer at Bristol University in anthropology. His degree was in, get this, human mating strategies - sex!

— Denis Lawson

Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age…

— E. O. Wilson

“One way to demonstrate courtship as a matter of course in an established relationship is to remember that courtship is the act of trying…

— Sarah Wendell

“Consider, for example, a cichlid fish known as Haplochromis burtoni that comes from the lakes of East Africa.9 In this species, only a small…

— Cordelia Fine

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

— Sigmund Freud